...................................................................LET US LEARN TOGETHER WHAT IS GOOD. Job 34:4b(NIV)................................................................Some people see the Bible as a long and boring book filled with incidents and events from the lives of ancient people who probably never existed. The biblical stories are seen as fables. In this blog, many of the situations and conversations found in the divinely inspired Holy Scriptures have been placed in categories that correspond to expressive sayings and phrases. Reference information, background information and links connecting the people and places are given to help you find a place to begin reading the Bible for yourself.

Sunday, June 07, 2020

Think Anew

From a letter written by the apostle Paul (Saul)
to believers in Rome, years after
was betrayed, arrested, crucified, buried in a tomb,
resurrected, seen by over 500 people, and returned to heaven:

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching; Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.-Romans 12:1-8

Reference Information:
exhort = parakalon/parakaleo = encourage, comfort, console, advocate, call to or for 

members = mele/melos = limb or organ of the body, part of the body

ministry = diakonia/diakonian/diakonos = service, willingly serve

office = praxin/praxis = prasso = function, deed

prophecy = propheteian/propheteia/propheteuo = reveal truth beforehand, clarification beforehand

rule = proistamenos/proistemi = lead, preside, oversee

simplicity = haploteti/haplotes/haplous = sincerity, generosity

Reference Scriptures:
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been al made to drink into one Spirit. For the body is not one member, but many.-1 Corinthians 12:12-14
       
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